The explosive advent of the AI universe is revolutionizing the data center industry in dozens of ways. From the smallest edge data closets to the largest hyperscale data centers from tech giants like Google and Meta, the power consumption, heat generation, and compute density of hardware powering AI applications and their workloads demand a radically different approach to data center design, construction, and operation.

There’s no consensus, however, about the emerging needs of next-generation data centers. Though many views on the needs of data centers for accelerated computing overlap, they’re often different and sometimes in conflict. It’s important to take in diverse voices when attempting to make AI infrastructure design and procurement decisions with implications that will last a decade.

This whitepaper will explore proven worldwide deployments that represent a new frontier in data center design. Revealing cutting-edge approaches, opening a world of possibilities for designing and building data centers for AI, machine learning, neural networks, deep learning, and generative AI applications.